Debarking

[Khriss]

  Mr Ed said:

There used to be a german company built HUGE mobile debarkers, costing around £500,000, with twin handleing cranes and massive engines. Company went bust in the early eighties as shortwooding became prominent.

 

The simple US built chain flail debarkers are very good bits of kit, but still very expensive...

 

or here's a good piece of kit, with a little bit of engineering it could be hooked up to a three phase generator and truck mounted -

Valon Kone VK600 debarker complete with TCR New & Used Sawmill & Woodworking Machinery, Blue Diamond Wood Shaving Mills, Woodshavings Mill, Sawdust & Bedding

 

Oh my no-did you see the power consumption ? God thats what a small village would use, be a fast bit of kit tho' - Albanian log-workers probly yr best bet. Just don't let them kno where the nearest Netto is-that cheap £5 vodka is back on the shelves.........

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[Yve_Clark]

Not sure if Cundy are still in existence, but according to my hubby, these debarkers were popular a fair few years ago. Probably around about £5-10K new, but Jas P Wilson's have one for sale on their site: FOR SALE----CUNDY DE- BARKER.PTO powered,ex estate machine.Very good condition"

Edited July 27, 2009 by Yve_Clark
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[gibbon]

Get some Poles to strip poles and pay the piece rate

[Highland Forestry]

  gibbon said:

Get some Poles to strip poles and pay the piece rate

 

Have recently been asked to consider taking on the contract for extraction of the poles from the woods using a skidder or similar.

I wonder if it would be possible to set up a stationary machine/scraper that we could winch the poles through to debark

[Husky D]

Never had a cundy peeler but used a Cembro (think that was what it was called!) but the cundy was a better design as it had wheels to take the posts through easier. We used to peel some pretty beefy straining posts but because of the length of the poles could you rig up atable or frame to support the weight and even load by crane if you were looking to do it big scale.

[sylvestris stew]

An old post , but I'll throw in my pennies worth anyway

 

Because of the spec for poles, they have to be scraped by hand, rollers on power feed dig too deeply into the log, hence mm felling rather than a harvester.

 

The powersaw attachments were too heavy and slower than a decent bloke with a spade.

 

I was talking to one of the pole buyers yesterday, the going rate for peeling is £4 -£6 a pole dependent on size, some lads are earning £180 -£240 a day, they surely earn it but theirs no outlay

[samtheman365]

  Highland Forestry said:

Hi All...

Silly questiontime is here again.

 

I run a squad of guys carrying out telegraph pole processing, part of which involves 'peeling' the poles, or debarking them.

 

Just wondered if anybody else on here has done this in the past?? I'm trying to find a more streamlined way of upping production. At the moment the boys use peeling spades, but it is hard work and production is limited.

 

Any ideas??

 

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Get a cundy peeler that will do the job and are so easy to use and you will find a few will be coming on the market soon, as tecnorton who sell them are in receivership and companies are worried that spares soon wont be avalible

but they are!!! if you want more details let me know as i do know of a couple of second hand cundy peelers coming up for sale soon they are based in south wales

[toby]

I'm looking for a second hand peeler pointer..

[john dawson]

the only peeling machine iv seen and used was a few years ago on the estate, they mainly cut the poles at fencepost size. one guy feeds in a pole, it goes throu the blades, comes out the other end and another guy stacks it. gives chips suitable for playground bark.

it was a very old machine, it had a crank handle to start it!

[CundeySystems]

Hi

 

samtheman365 was right about the Cundey Peelers coming back to the market.

 

Cundey Systems has purchased the assets from technroton and are looking to start manufacturing the the Cundey range.

 

If you are still looking for a debarker have a look at our site www.cundeysystems.co.uk

 

or call Nigel Tonks by

 

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sales@cundeysystems.co.uk

 

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